This week’s news includes an overwhelming union rejection, more election results, and the gift that keeps on giving: Obamacare. Here is your weekly round-up:

- Machinist union members have yet to realize that pension plans will no longer exist in the near future and that health care costs were going up for pretty much everyone. By a whopping 67%, union members rejected Boeing’s contract offer that would keep 777X in the Puget Sound on the basis of these two complaints. Boeing will not re-open negotiations with the IAM union. They began their search for alternative sites for 777X production shortly after the Machinists rejected their offer. Rumored areas include Huntsville, Alabama, Long Beach, California, North Charleston, South Carolina, Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Antonio, Texas—all of which have existing Boeing plants and are courting Boeing for more business.

- Seattle looks more and more likely to elect the first socialist councilmember on the non-partisan City Council. Over the past few days, Kshama Sawant increased her lead over four-term incumbent Richard Conlin. She now leads by 1,148 votes.

- SeaTac’s Proposition 1 is headed for a certain recount. The measure that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour leads by a mere 53 votes.

- We are glad that Kreider and his liberal counterparts are beginning to figure out that “insurance only works if you have a robust pool of good and bad risk,” but that is where our faith in their abilities end. After all, we still have to deal with Obamacare. Early nation-wide enrollment figures show little attraction of the young and healthy. In Washington State, about 23% of enrollees are between the ages of 18-34.